The 2018-2019 Annual Service, Support & Upgrade Fee Invoices have been emailed out for renewal for the coming financial year.

All annual fees currently expire on the 30th June 2018 so please ensure your accounts department has processed your invoice prior to expiry to continue receiving support and all upgrades from 1 July 2018 onward.

If your accounts payable department has an updated email address for invoices to be sent to or you didn’t receive the invoice last week then please email accounts@manad.com.au to request another copy or to update your details and email address.

We are now not too far away from completing the last few features that will be going into our next minor release, version 5.6.

For those of you who came to our User Group Meetings in both Melbourne & Sydney towards the end of 2017, you would have seen and heard what many of these are.

Some of the highlights are:

• An all-new ‘Risk Register’ feature
• One ‘reply’ will be allowed to a message received via the Messageboard
• Template macros can be created for Progress Notes
• Add your own ‘Guides’ for staff to follow for each of the Monitoring/Charting items
• More powerful charting with Pivot Grids
• An all-new ‘App’ module for those licenced to use the Manad Plus Mobiel App
• ‘Report an assault’ and ‘My Incidents’ added to the User module
• More use of colours to tag your Reference items
• Several new reports
• …plus more!

We’ll continue to update you via our eNews as we get closer to finalising the testing and have created the Release Notes which will be made available for download. The final version should be available in early-mid June.

The department has received a number of enquiries from providers about when an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) assessment is required. A subsidy cannot be paid to an approved provider for providing care to a person, unless the person is approved under the Aged Care Act 1997 (the Act) as a care recipient.

Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt AM is calling on young Australians to consider diverse and exciting new careers in the rapidly growing aged care sector.

Launching Australia’s first aged care Next Gen Young Leaders Forum in Perth today, Minister Wyatt said strong, long-term demand and the promise of new professional pathways made the sector an ideal employment choice.

“We are entering a golden age of ageing,” said Minister Wyatt. “In WA alone it’s projected employment in health, aged care and social assistance will reach more than 180,000 by 2022, as our population ages and the sector becomes increasingly diverse.

Ensuring thousands of new residential aged care places are located where they are most needed is the aim of a national consultation process underway from today.

Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, said a wide range of aged care stakeholders were invited to take part, to help inform the 2018-19 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR), announced in the Turnbull Government’s 2018–19 Budget.

Funding for aged care will increase by $5 billion over the next four years, including for 13,500 new residential aged care places, 775 short term restorative care places and a further $60 million in capital investment, to be made available in this ACAR.

Minister Wyatt said the results of the consultation would help guide the distribution and targeting of new places and capital grants in each state and territory.

The Minister for Aged Care, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM, MP has announced the opening of the 2018-19 ACAR consultation to ensure thousands of new residential aged care places are located where they are most needed.

A short survey is now open on the Consultation Hub. The survey closes on Monday, 28 May 2018.

The 2018–19 Budget is guaranteeing the essential health services that Australians rely on, with a $12.4 billion increase in the Health Budget and a $414.5 billion investment in health, aged care and sport.

We will increase:

• Medicare funding by $4.8 billion;
• public hospital funding by more than $30 billion;
• investment in new medicines by $2.4 billion; and
• funding for aged care by $5.0 billion.

As part of the mandatory vaccination program, residential aged care providers will be required to keep a record of the number of staff and volunteers that receive a flu vaccination each year (whether or not under the Flu Vaccination Program).

This record keeping can be made very easy by using our 2 features which capture vaccinations for both Clients and Staff.

Please note the next minor version update of Manad Plus (v5.6) will now require Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 to be installed.

Please notify your IT Administrator so they can prepare for this next time they are planning updates to your infrastructure. We have not set a release date yet for v5.6 so they can add this to their usual planning of Windows updates over the coming months, if it is not already installed.

We use an application called Zendesk for the Manad Plus Help Centre. This is where you can access Release Notes, Help Documentation and submit support tickets.

IMPORTANT: Zendesk has announced the deprecation of TLS support version 1.0 and 1.1 from June 14th onwards. As a result of the change, Zendesk will no longer operate on older browsers.

To continue to securely access Zendesk, users must use a modern browser version that supports TLS version 1.2 or above to access Zendesk after June 14th. The minimum browser versions include browsers such as Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla Firefox 27, Google Chrome 30 or Apple Safari 7.

The Turnbull Government is delivering on its commitment to address the challenges remote aged care providers face as they deliver safe, high-quality care for ageing Australians, with a special meeting held to examine remote aged care services.

The Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, said the meeting with representatives from remote and very remote aged care providers was a direct result of national consultations by the Aged Care Workforce Strategy Taskforce.

“We need a population health approach, one that thinks outside the square and shapes what we need for future years, to build on the existing workforce”

“We are determined to meet this challenge, to deliver the best possible aged care for senior Australians, whether they live in our cities, regional centres or very remote communities.”

The new ‘notification of a material change’ form is now available online. This form should be used by approved providers to notify the department about:

• Any situation that materially affects your organisation’s suitability to be an approved provider. A material change is one that is substantial or considerable in nature.
• Any changes to the approved provider’s authorised contact details. The approved provider’s authorised contact is the person that the department can contact and is authorised to act on behalf of your organisation.

You are required to notify the department within 28 days after the change occurs.